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NASA Panel Grapples With Cost of Space Plans – NYTimes.com "The United States cannot afford to send humans anywhere beyond the space station — especially Mars — unless it wants to spend more money." (tags: nasa space moon mars) BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | New planet displays exotic orbit "Astronomers have discovered the […]

Slashdot Technology Story | Chevy Volt Rated At 230 mpg In the City The Volt will run for 40 miles purely on battery and post that use a gasoline engine to charge the battery giving it 50 miles to the gallon at that point. (tags: chevrolet chevyvolt greentechnology) How to Compete Against Open Source Competition […]

BBC NEWS | Americas | LatAm alarm over US-Colombia plan "South American leaders at a regional summit have expressed fresh concerns over Colombian plans to grant American troops access to its military bases. But at the gathering in Ecuador, they rejected a proposal to formally condemn the proposals, which would allow US access up to […]

Ajaxian » Microsoft dips toe in HTML 5 water "To be honest there isn’t much to learn here though. This first set of feedback talks about some of the tags that are proposed… and there are a lot of them. It is quite easy to pick on the odd tag here and there to ask […]

Tesla Says It Is Now Profitable, Ships 109 Roadsters In July "Silicon Valley’s electric car company, Tesla Motors, says that it hit profitability in July. The private company reports that it made “approximately $1 million of earnings” on revenues of $20 million, and that it shipped 109 Roadsters, its $109,000 all-electric sports car." Good job. […]

The Smashing Book: Pre-Order Now And Save 20% | Events | Smashing Magazine "Although The Smashing Book won’t be published until late September, you can secure your copy today. Now, why would you do that? For one reason, you will get the huge discount: 20% off the regular price. If you pre-order now, you’ll pay […]

What's Microsoft's next billion-dollar business? (Hint: it's not search) | All about Microsoft | ZDNet.com "Until fairly recently, SharePoint was one of those businesses. But now that Microsoft’s SharePoint sales have passed the $1 billion barrier (they were $1.3 billion for fiscal 2009, which ended for Microsoft on June 30), what’s Microsoft’s next big thing? […]

Not Always Right | Funny & Stupid Customer Quotes » The Featherweight Watchers Program This has to be made up there is no other explanation. (tags: humor stupid darwinadwards) Social Networking on Intranets (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) "Perhaps more than any other corporate intranet innovation, social software technologies are exposing the holes in corporate communication and […]

StumbleUpon WebToolbar – Taking a Stand on Twitter's Auto-DM Policy #endautodm | Stay N Alive "I’m getting sick of the auto-dms. Chris Brogan is sick. Sean Percival is sick. Robert Scoble is sick. Jeremiah Owyang is sick. The list goes on and on, and we’re not the only ones. Starting today I’m taking a stand." […]

RSS Subscribers or Twitter Followers: Which Are Worth More? "As it stands, Twitter followers are at a significant disadvantage over RSS subscribers, because the former are less engaged than the latter. This isn’t to say Twitter accounts can’t be highly influential, just that they require a lot more skill on the part of the author […]